Ok   dave there are four ways to counteract the rotor force: Manual , which is manually spinning up the tail rotor vs. rotor torque, mechanical, mech actuation to compensate for rotor torque, ccpm (collective cyclic pitch mixing) which is new and common on the electric helis...it is electronic compensation for rotor torque....the tail does not move in space until you tell it too..no matter what other inputs are made. the last is to have two counter rotating main rotors that way they cancel each other out in torque.  

Some RC helis are called two motor or dual motor; in theses the speed of the tail motor compensates for rotor torque.  The second kind (better in my opinion) is a variable pitch tail which is driven off the same motor that drives the main.  All serious nitro helis use this method either by belt or by shaft drive.  the tail rotor does its job by variable pitch instead of speeding up and down.

I just hooked up a playstation like controller to a simulator tonite for practice.  It is intimidating to say the least...to try to maintain all the controls simultaneously .  But it costs me nothing to crash the simulator...so its a great practice bed.   If you like I will pm  you links to a free sim and all you will need is a two joystick playstation like gamepad....this will get close to the real thing.

all your control inputs revolve around two joysticks   so   you have eight inputs  up-down-left-right x2   on american transmitters the left joy is throttle (up-down) tail (left right), [right stick] up-forward, down backward, left roll left, right roll right.     This same scenario works for planes as well.